It was a catfish he purchased in Tennessee, put in a cooler, doused with Old Spice to cover the smell, fileted, ran over with a pickup up to flatten, vacuum sealed in a bag and then hid in his crotch as he paid $350 to attend Monday night’s game.

For his efforts, Waddell was detained by arena security. A police officer told him that he would receive a citation in the mail for “disorderly conduct.” Instead, Waddell found out on Tuesday that the charges were “disorderly conduct, disrupting a meeting and possessing instruments of a crime,” which TMZ Sports reported could have added up to six years in prison.

“Having reviewed the affidavit involving Mr. [Jacob] Waddell as well as the television coverage of the incident, District Attorney Zappala has made the determination that the actions of Mr. Waddell do not rise to the level of criminal charges,” spokesman Mike Manko said in a statement Wednesday. “As such, the three charges filed against Mr. Waddell will be withdrawn in a timely manner.”

Or was it the threat to fight these charges from Waddell himself? “If they want to go down that road, we can. I’m just stubborn enough, as you can probably tell from strapping a catfish to my crotch, to go up there and fight it.”

Or, perhaps, the district attorney just decided that threatening a guy with a few years in prison for throwing sea life at a hockey game was completely absurd? Yeah. That’s probably it.